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Originally Posted by LukeFF
Grr, now this is frustrating. I just combined those two files together into the proper format for the game, activated it via JSGME, and what do I get? Nothing but blank lines for the crewmember's names. 
Could somebody check this file out and see if I've made a mistake somewhere in the file format?
http://files.filefront.com/Historic+.../fileinfo.html |
I experimented with it a little bit to eliminate some possibilties.
I removed all the ' and . characters as well as the spaces between the multi-part names. I also looked at it in Word and removed all the manual line breaks that don't belong there.
None of these things, by themselves, fixed the problem... but I suspect they still need to be removed in order for the list to work correctly.
Anyway, that brought me to file size or the actual number of names in the lists.
So as a test I deleted most of the surnames from both sections (1 and 2) and that didn't work. Then I tried deleting a bunch of names from each of the 4 sections and hey presto!
So the problem appears to be that there's an upper limit on the number of names that can be in each of the four sections (Names 1 and 2, and Surnames 1 and 2).
I'm not sure exactly what that limit is, but I seem to have got under it when I deleted approximately half the names from each of those sections in your list.
BTW, it seems the devs got the labels backward here. For this to work, you need to put first names under the Surnames= section and last names under the Names= sections.
Go figure.
JD